Photo by Ben Bentley

Leeds alternative/post-punk mainstays I LIKE TRAINS have announced the release of their new studio album Kompromat, scheduled to drop August 21st on Atlantic Curve. The record follows their 2016 soundtrack LP A Divorce Before Marriage. The forthcoming album deals with issues pertaining to privacy and the use of our online data in the marketing and political arena.

I LIKE TRAINS revealed the leading single from Kompromat entitled ‘The Truth’ in which they released a video for last month. The band have now released another single called ‘Dig In’, which is also accompanied by visuals containing clips of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and random footage all connecting the idea of leaders manipulating the truth to gain power. The video is directed by Michael Connolly.

Touching on the new album, front man David Martin stated:

“We didn’t set out to write a record about current affairs, but the path we set out on converged drastically with that daily discourse. The album inadvertently became about populist politics across the world. Brexit, Trump, Cambridge Analytica and covert Russian influence ended up at the centre of it all.”